* 1661 – Charles Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax, English poet and statesman ( d. 1715 )

* 1920 – Charles Bukowski, American poet ( d. 1994 )

* 1935 – Charles Wright, American poet

* 1946 – Charles Ghigna, American poet and author

Craig Joseph Charles ( born 11 July 1964 ) is an English actor, comedian, author, poet, television presenter and radio DJ.

Charles first appeared on television as a performance poet, which led on to minor presenting roles.

Charles began his career as a contemporary and urban performance poet on the British cabaret circuit.

Charles first appeared on television as the resident poet on the arts programme Riverside on BBC2, and on the day-time BBC1 chat show Pebble Mill at One.

Charles was the resident poet on Channel 4's Black on Black ( 1985 ), and its entertainment-based successor, Club Mix ( 1986 ), and appeared, weekly, as a John Cooper Clarke-style ' punk poet ' on the BBC2 pop music programme Oxford Road Show under the name of " Susan Williams ".

* 1910 – Charles Olson, American poet ( d. 1970 )

* 1791 – Charles Wolfe, Irish poet ( d. 1823 )

* 1706 – Charles Sackville, 6th Earl of Dorset, English poet and courtier ( b. 1638 )

* 1638 – Charles Sackville, 6th Earl of Dorset, English poet ( d. 1706 )

* 1873 – Charles Péguy, French poet and essayist ( d. 1914 )

* 1927 – Charles Tomlinson, British poet and translator

* 1860 – Charles G. D. Roberts, Canadian poet and writer ( d. 1943 )

Charles Lamb, poet and friend of Coleridge, witnessed Coleridge's work towards publishing the poem and wrote to Wordsworth: " Coleridge is printing Xtabel by Lord Byron's recommendation to Murray, with what he calls a vision of Kubla Khan – which said vision he repeats so enchantingly that it irradiates & brings Heaven & Elysian bowers into my parlour while he sings or says it ".

Responding in part to Wheeler in 1986, Charles Rzepka analysed the relationship between the poet and the audience of the poem while describing Kubla Khan as one of " Coleridge's three great poems of the supernatural ".

As an instance of his tact in this capacity, it is related that when Charles interrupted a complimentary address by quoting from a satirical poem of Alamanni's the words :" l ' aquila grifagna, Che per piu devorar, duoi rostri porta " (" Two crooked bills the ravenous eagle bears, The better to devour "), the latter at once replied that he spoke them as a poet, who was permitted to use fictions, but that he spoke now as an ambassador, who was obliged to tell the truth.

* 1938 – Charles Simic, Yugoslavian poet, 15th Poet Laureate of the United States

The second French school was Symbolism, which literary historians see beginning with the poet Charles Baudelaire ( 1861 – 67 ) ( Les fleurs du mal, 1857 ), and including the later poets, Arthur Rimbaud ( 1854 – 91 ), Paul Verlaine ( 1844 – 96 ), Stéphane Mallarmé ( 1842 – 98 ), and Paul Valéry ( 1871 – 1945 ).

David Charles Mooney Australian poet

* 1394 – Charles, Duke of Orléans, French poet ( d. 1465 )

Boniface also placed the city of Florence under an interdict and invited the ambitious French Count Charles of Valois to enter Italy in 1300 to end the feud of Black and White Guelphs, the poet Dante being in the party of the Whites.

* April 9 – Charles Baudelaire, French poet and writer ( d. 1867 )

It has been popularized by the poet Charles Baudelaire ( 1821 – 1867 ) but was already used before in particular to the Romantic literature ( 19th century ).

Verlaine's concept of the poète maudit in turn borrows from Baudelaire, who opened his collection Les fleurs du mal with the poem Bénédiction, which describes a poet whose internal serenity remains undisturbed by the contempt of the people surrounding him.

* Charles Baudelaire ( 1821 – 67 ) French poet ( Les Fleurs du mal )

It was greatly admired by his colleagues and friends Manet, the painter Gustave Courbet and the poet Charles Baudelaire.

* August 31-Charles Baudelaire, French poet and writer

* April 9-Charles Baudelaire, French poet ( died 1867 )

Amongst those who admired him was the poet Charles Baudelaire, who described himself a disciple of the Savoyard counter-revolutionary, claiming that he had taught him " how to think.

In 1914, as Germany and France fought each other in the First World War ( 1914 – 1918 ), the intellectual Walter Benjamin began faithfully translating the works of the 19th-century French poet Charles Baudelaire ( 1821 – 1867 ).

The 19th century French poet Charles Baudelaire commented on Faro's ( to him ) disagreeable aftertaste, " It's beer that you drink twice ", believing that the Faro in Brussels was brewed from the waters of a river ( the Senne or Zenne ) that was also used as a sewer.

The French poet Charles Baudelaire, a cat fancier, believed in familiar spirits.

This album, infused with a much darker atmosphere, is more sexually ambiguous than her previous one, featuring songs inspired by Mylène ’ s favourite authors, including the French romantic poet Charles Baudelaire and the American horror writer Edgar Allan Poe.

French poet and author Charles Baudelaire translated the novel in 1857 as Les Aventures d ' Arthur Gordon Pym.

He took little active part in conventional student life, preferring to take a more aloof and bohemian stance modelled on his French symbolist poet heroes Baudelaire, Verlaine, Corbière, and Rimbaud.

Les paradis artificiels ( Artificial Paradises ) is a book by French poet Charles Baudelaire, first published in 1860, about the state of being under the influence of opium and hashish.

Frank Pearce Sturm ( 1879 – 1942 ) was an English poet and translator, known for his 1906 translations of Baudelaire ; his short poem Still-heart is a popular favourite.

Artistically he was influenced by French literature and the poet Charles Baudelaire whom he cites in many of his works.

She ( and her family ) supposedly got their surname from famous French poet Charles Baudelaire.

A dominating figure in 19th century art criticism was French poet Charles Baudelaire, whose first published work was his art review Salon of 1845, which attracted immediate attention for its boldness.

As in the case of Baudelaire in the 19th century, the poet-as-critic phenomenon appears once again in the 20th, when French poet Apollinaire becomes the champion of cubism.

The French poet and critic Charles Baudelaire referred to his portrait series as showing " all the morals and aesthetics of the age ".

The naturalist tendency to see life without illusions and to dwell on its more depressing and sordid aspects appears in an intensified degree in the immensely influential poetry of Charles Baudelaire, but with profoundly romantic elements derived from the Byronic myth of the anti-hero and the romantic poet

Baudelaire saw poetry as a form of art, and thus in many of the prose poems the artist is a substitute for a traditional poet or speaker.